(In this post, Thierry Schiel shares his first experiences in creating a storyboard completely on the iPhone. Thierry is a traditional animator on some 10 feature films and has also created and directed two full length CGI feature films “Tristan and Isolde” and “Renart the Fox”. He is also one of the most skillful fingerpainters you’ll find.)
Making a storyboard for a short film means doing between 150 to 200 drawings to tell a story. For my current CGI film I decided to try changing my PC/Wacom habits and to use the combined strength of Sketchbook Mobile and Hitchcock apps on my iPod Touch.
But would it work like it should?
The drawing part
It was very easy to do a drawing test as I had already used for some time Sketchbook Mobile and really appreciated its qualities. At first I was really impressed by how close a result I get to what I usually do on my desktop. With SBM I get the unique combination of layers, high resolution and beautiful lines for my drawings.
In his flickr-stream, fellow iPhone-Artist La Legra Negra shows us in 4 easy steps how he did this masterpiece; he was so kind to let us post the whole set here on fingerpainted.it – thanks Joseandrés!
The final piece: Cuenca: Science Museum from Alfonso VIII Street, by LaLegraNegra
Since none of the top iPhone painting apps supply any kind of gradient-tool so far, blending colors can be a bit tricky in the beginning. In this little tutorial I show you the basic principle and also some very rare footage of a cherry.
In this one we show you how to easily fingerpaint simple clouds on your iPhone using Brushes – the basic technique can also be used for any other kind of feathery texture.
This tutorial is meant for the very beginner, so please let us know:
do you want to see more simple bits like this?
Or would you rather see longer tutorials about a complete painting?
Or something completely else? More bunnies?
(This is a guest-post by fellow fingerpainter Matthew Seydel Connors. Matt has a very distinct style and has become one of my favorite sources for inspiration recently. Thanks for sharing this on here, Matt!)
Shiva Rising, by Matt Connors
“Shiva Rising was an experimental piece for me, and one that was well suited to the intuitive way of fingerpainting on an iPhone. I have several images that I use as ‘starter backgrounds’ to avoid the challenge of beginning on white or a color without texture or character; for this image, I started with a detail of a doorframe that I shot…
Layers, the new iPhone painting kid on the block is only just available for a day and already Luis Peso has put his extreme capable fingers on it and created this little walkthrough; thanks Luis!
So, it starts with a basic scribble using the small coarse brush:
Many thanks to Patricio Villarroel for sharing with us his tricks in this little tutorial; using Kandinsky lite, Pollock, PhotoFX, Photogene and Brushes. Patricio is probably one of the most distinctive and certainly the most productive iPhone artist I know, so this walkthrough is a little gem to me. Here we go.
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